THE BIJOU RETROSPECTIVE: “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “War Horse”
WAR HORSE: Watch It At Home – Spielberg’s Beautiful Muzak Earlier this year, audiences were presented with Super 8, J. J. Abrams’s pastiche of Steven Spielberg’s classic sci-fi adventures f...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “In Time”
IN TIME: Watch It At Home – The Clock Never Really Starts Ticking Andrew Niccol wants to be a populist moviemaker of ideas, but he just doesn’t have the knack. Niccol’s ideas are genuinely im...
FRIDAY BOXOFFICE: STUDIO SCORECARD – 1/6/12
> Everyone wanted to go to the movies on the first full weekend of 2012. PARAMOUNT: The studio went straight to its Paranormal Activity playbook to launch THE DEVIL INSIDE (pre-release screenings, months of buzz), and it ...
HOLIDAY BOXOFFICE: NEW YEAR’S WEEKEND STUDIO SCORECARD – 1/2/12
> As detailed in Mitch Metcalf’s Weekend Boxoffice Report, New Year’s Day wasn’t the bonanza the studios were expecting it to be. PARAMOUNT: MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL‘s Sunday incr...
THE BIJOU: Weekend Boxoffice Footnotes – 10/23/11
> The Saturday drop for PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 turned out to be very much in line with Paranormal 2‘s. Paramount is estimating a better Sunday hold than the second installment had; if the result is instead the same a...
FRIDAY BOXOFFICE: STUDIO SCORECARD – 1/14/12
> The Martin Luther King holiday weekend, a relatively small one for Hollywood because many people work on Monday, begins. UNIVERSAL: The studio made the fairly extraordinary decision to sit out the holiday movie season entirel...
THE BIJOU: Early Weekend Boxoffice – 9/24/11
>Not a lot of change in the numbers as early Saturday results are factored in. Deadline reports THE LION KING at #1 with $22M, MONEYBALL 2d with $21M, and DOLPHIN TALE 3rd with $20M, so any or all of those could shift as ...
WEEKEND BOXOFFICE: STUDIO SCORECARD – 1/15/12
> Due to the Martin Luther King holiday on Monday, all studios are estimating low Sunday drops, although some are projecting more aggressively than others. UNIVERSAL: CONTRABAND held almost even on Saturday, which is good...
THE BIJOU: Early Weekend Boxoffice – 10/8/11
> Deadline has some early Saturday and weekend numbers, the highlight of which is that REAL STEEL is claiming a 40% Saturday bump, which would lead it to a $29M weekend, somewhat higher than expected. Since Steel is a fam...
THE BIJOU BOXOFFICE: Footnotes – 8/19/11
> THE HELP will be the year’s first “serious” movie to gross over $100M. September is traditionally one of the softest months on the movie release calendar, and 2011 is no exception: although there...
BIJOU BOXOFFICE: Weekend Studio Scorecard – 11/4/11
> BREAKING DAWN PART 1: Running $8M below New Moon at the parallel place in their runs, but with a slower rate of decline (at least until New Year’s Eve opens next week). New Moon earned another $41M after the...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “New Year’s Eve”
NEW YEAR’S EVE: Not At Any Price – Calling it a “Sit-Com” Insults TV NEW YEAR’S EVE is such a calculated piece of commercial manufacture that it deserves a Powerpoint presentation m...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Machine Gun Preacher”
MACHINE GUN PREACHER: Watch It At Home – A True Story Rings False MACHINE GUN PREACHER simply isn’t good enough for the story it wants to tell. And the story, a true one, is remarkable: Sam Child...